Microsoft will launch the iPad version of the Office suite

Last week, Microsoft suggested at the meeting of financial analysts that this situation is still possible. Qi Lu said during the conference: "Microsoft is working on the 'touch-first' Office Suite core applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint."

"We will bring these applications to Windows devices, as well as other devices that cater to the needs of customers. At a suitable time, this experience can bring value to customers, and it also has economic significance for Microsoft." Qi Lu is responsible for Microsoft's Applications and Services Group, and the Office productivity suite is one of them.

One analyst once suggested that Microsoft should "make its own applications free and run across platforms." And Steve Ballmer replied, "What I'm going to tell you is that we will integrate our services with our own equipment, but we will also let our services run on other people's equipment. Is it a consumer or a corporate customer?".

It seems that Microsoft does have the idea of ​​bringing Office to other platforms, but the official has not yet directly answered or confirmed.